Donald Trump Is a Jerk, but That Does Not Make Meryl Streep an Underdog
The award-winning movie star implausibly portrays herself and her famous friends as vilified dissidents.
Movies
John Carpenter to Nazis: Dammit, Stop Treating They Live As a Metaphor for The Jews
You can't blame the filmmaker for being annoyed. But audiences are always repurposing art, sometimes in creepy ways, sometimes in ways that are more appealing.
Movie Review: 20th Century Women
Annette Bening and a top cast are in peak form in one of the year's best movies.
Carrie Fisher—Forever Associated with Star Wars—Dead at 60
For better or worse, part of one America's biggest movie franchise juggernauts
Movie Review: Silence
Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver worship at the church of Scorsese.
The Best Books, Films, Music, and Television of 2016
Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles, HBO's Westworld, Brian Fallon's Painkillers, and more. What's on your list?
Movie Review: Assassin's Creed
Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in another terrible video-game flick.
Bloodthirsty Mickey Mouse Attacks Innocent Children
Friday A/V Club: Japanese propagandists do Disney.
Movie Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Felicity Jones in a galaxy not all that far away…
Leftist Students Shouted 'F*ck You B*itch' at the Gay Director of a Pro-Trans Movie, Boys Don't Cry
Reed College dean chides students for heckling, interrupting speaker Kimberly Peirce
Movie Review: Jackie
Natalie Portman in a stillborn bio-snippet from the Kennedy years.
Movie Review: Allied
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in a retro wartime romance.
The World Health Organization's Tough Tactics Against Tobacco and E-Cigs
The United Nations' public health agency achieves consensus through mass detentions and media censorship.
Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Eddie Redmayne in a return to Potter World, or someplace sort of like it.
The Go-To Reference for People Afraid of Mass Culture
And one of many go-to references for pundits trying to explain Trump
Seeing Trump on the Silver Screen
What A Face in the Crowd and Meet John Doe tell us about populism, pop culture, and fear.
Movie Review: Doctor Strange
Benedict Cumberbatch pumps new life into the ever-expanding Marvel universe.
The Punk Show at the Mental Hospital
Friday A/V Club: One of the most sublime rock documentaries ever made
Movie Reviews: Inferno and Gimme Danger
Tom Hanks returns to Dan Brown land, and Iggy and the Stooges rage again.
Movie Review: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Tom Cruise going through the motions in a mild, unmemorable thriller.
Michael Moore Releasing Trump Film as 'October Surprise' Thanks to Citizens United
Moore can also be honest about the point of his film now that the Supreme Court has freed him to do so.
Movie Review: Christine
Rebecca Hall is darkly brilliant in a true-life story of death on the airwaves.
Does the First Amendment Cover Books, Movies or Netflix?
Not as clear cut to regulators as it may be to the rest of us.
When Police Abuse Is 'Normal'
A new documentary on militarized police focuses on mundane, everyday, "legitimate" abuses.
Movie Review: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Tim Burton back in nearly top form.
California Censors IMDB Because of Hollywood's Alleged Ageism
Lawmakers attempt to tell online database what information it's allowed to publish.
Movie Reviews: The Magnificent Seven and Chicken People
Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt in a not-bad remake, and a visit to the world of competitive poultry.
Movie Reviews: Snowden and Bridget Jones's Baby
Oliver Stone and Renée Zellweger return, in top form.
Lawmakers Offer Snowden Film Cross-Promotion with Report Blasting Him
House Intel Committee says he was no whistleblower.
Movie Reviews: Sully and The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
Profiles in courage and '60s pop delirium.
Friday A/V Club: A Vintage Anti-Hippie Film Strip
A fever-dream film strip from 1967 calls the counterculture a communist/capitalist plot.
Movie Reviews: The Light Between Oceans and Morgan
Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender in a deceptive heart-tugger, and Kate Mara on the trail of yet another sci-fi cyborg.
Movie Reviews: Don't Breathe and I Am Not a Serial Killer
Fresh new adventures in low-budget horror.
Autostraddle Apologizes for Favorably Reviewing the 'Animated Queer Taco' in Sausage Party
Salma Hayek's lesbian taco character is really racist, apparently.
Friday A/V Club: The Fascist, the Humanist, and the Olympics
How Kon Ichikawa outdid Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary Delves Deeply into Hitchcock's Filmmaker Mind
A critical analysis every film buff should watch
Movie Review: Suicide Squad
Margot Robbie and Will Smith trapped in a droopy super-mess.
Friday A/V Club: What We Left at the World's Fair
John Crowley and Jason Robards look back at a festival of social planning.
